Events on Monday, February 27

<em>American Creative Writers on Class</em>

Books: Discussion

American Creative Writers on Class

Monday 2/27 @ powerHouse Arena

American Creative Writers on Class couldn't be more timely. With economic inequality at the forefront of our consciousness, this collection of... 

Artist Talk: A Conversation with Parviz Tanavoli

Art: Lecture

Artist Talk: A Conversation with Parviz Tanavoli

Monday 2/27 @ Asia Society and Museum

Parviz Tanavoli, one of Iran's foremost artists, will be speaking with Melissa Chiu about his journey as Iran's first significant modern sculptor. A... 

Gerald Finley, bass-baritone; Julius Drake, piano

Music: Classical

Gerald Finley, bass-baritone; Julius Drake, piano

Monday 2/27 @ Lincoln Center

This great bass-baritone, recently heard as Elijah with the New York Philharmonic and as J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Metropolitan Opera’s... 

Live From Home with Amy Ray and Lindsay Fuller

Music

Live From Home with Amy Ray and Lindsay Fuller

Monday 2/27 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

  Monday, February 27 at 8:00pm   An intimate benefit evening with Amy Ray. For over 25 years, Amy Ray has... 

What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow - Beethoven: "Pathétique" Sonata

Music

What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow - Beethoven: "Pathétique" Sonata

Monday 2/27 @ Lincoln Center

Inon Barnatan, piano   Composer, conductor, commentator, and author Rob Kapilow makes music appreciation inevitable in the beloved What Makes It... 

Ongoing Events

Joaqu&iacute;n Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress

Fashion/Style

Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress

Monday 2/27 @ Queen Sofia Spanish Institute

Two fashion greats, Oscar de la Renta and Vogue's André Leon Talley, team up to bring you this seminal exhibition on... 

<em>Memphis</em>

Theatre: Musical

Memphis

Monday 2/27 @ Shubert Theatre (225 W 44th St)

MEMPHIS is about a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black club singer who is ready... 

The New Group presents the world premiere of <em>Russian Transport</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

Russian Transport

Monday 2/27 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row

Like New Group's previous Burning, Russian Transport is another seriocomic, well-written depiction of a dysfunctional family perfomed by a cast that is belivable... 

Adam Curtis: <em>The Desperate Edge of Now</em>

Art: Video

Adam Curtis

Monday 2/27 @ e-flux 311 East Broadway New York NY 10002 212.619.3356

If you think you can handle the truth about the neo-conservatives, the Iranian Revolution, DDT, and a host of other controversial... 

<em>Clifford Owens: Anthology</em>

Art: Performance

Clifford Owens: Anthology

Monday 2/27 @ MoMA PS1

Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first... 

<em>How I Learned To Drive</em>

Theatre: Broadway

How I Learned To Drive

Monday 2/27 @ 2econd Stage Theatre

How I learned To Drive is not a feel-good story, a tender tale of the loss of teen innocence. It is... 

<em>Undefeated</em>

Film: Documentary

Undefeated

Monday 2/27 @ Landmark Sunshine

The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your... 

David LaChapelle:&nbsp;<em>Earth Laughs in Flowers</em>

Art: Photography

Earth Laughs in Flowers

Monday 2/27 @ Fred Torres Collaborations

Making its US debut at Fred Torres Collaborations, Earth Laughs in Flowers, a new series of ten large-scale photographs by David... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

Avenue Q

Monday 2/27 @ New World Stages

Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and... 

Punchdrunk's <em>Sleep No More</em>

Cultural Hybrid

Punchdrunk's Sleep No More

Monday 2/27 @ The McKittrick Hotel

Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning... 

<em>How to Start a Revolution</em>

Film: Documentary

How to Start a Revolution

Monday 2/27 @ reRun Gastropub Theater

It's hard to believe from looking at him, but Dr. Gene Sharp, the subject of Scottish director Ruaridh Arrow's Kickstarter-funded documentary,... 

Documentary Fortnight 2012: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media

Film: Festival

Documentary Fortnight 2012

Monday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

For two weeks each year, MoMA populates its film schedule with recent documentary films that explore the connection between contemporary art... 

Bertolt Brecht's <em>Galileo</em>

Theatre: Revival

Galileo

Monday 2/27 @ Classic Stage Company

Starting with the playwright, everyone is worked up in Galileo. The Church and Galileo's royal patrons don't like his "turning around... 

<em>Raw Spaces</em>: Lisa Lebofsky

Art: Painting & Drawing

Lisa Lebofsky

Monday 2/27 @ Milavec Hakimi Gallery

Lisa Lebofsky's current show at the Milavec Hakimi gallery brings a sense of space, of an exploration of dark and light,... 

<em>The Ungovernables</em>

Art: Group Show

The Ungovernables

Monday 2/27 @ New Museum

With the Occupy Wall Street movement and revolutionary uprisings world-wide, it's only appropriate that the New Museum dedicates its space to... 

Film Comment Selects 2012

Film: Festival

Film Comment Selects

Monday 2/27 @ Walter Reade Theatre

James Franco, David Wain, Kenneth Lonergan, and Aleksandr Sokurov are among those drafted by Film Comment for the magazine's annual salute... 

Weegee: <em>Murder Is My Business</em>

Art: Photography

Weegee: Murder Is My Business

Monday 2/27 @ International Center of Photography

Legendary photojournalist and newspaper freelancer of the 1930s and 1940s, Weegee has made his fame capturing gruesome murder scenes and high-profile... 

<em>Mamma Mia!</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Mamma Mia!

Monday 2/27 @ Winter Garden Theatre

Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit... 

<em>Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Monday 2/27 @ The Palace Theatre

Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York.... 

<em>Brooklyn Close-Up</em>

Film: Festival

Brooklyn Close-Up

Monday 2/27 @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Celebrating nine decades of Brooklyn film history and revealing how filmmakers since the silent era have been inspired by the County... 

<em>Seminar</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Seminar

Monday 2/27 @ The Golden Theatre

Seminar, the witty and provocative new comedy, has hit Broadway with great success and critical acclaim. The world premiere of this... 

<em>Tribes</em>

Theatre: Off-Off-Broadway

Tribes

Monday 2/27 @ Barrow Street Theater

Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the... 

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

Art: Multimedia

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

Monday 2/27 @ Museum of the Moving Image

If Sesame Street was your primary baby-sitter back when you were a kid, and you considered Kermit and Miss Piggy some... 

<em>Shatner's World</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Shatner's World

Monday 2/27 @ Music Box Theatre

If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly... 

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Monday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Through her self portraits, Cindy Sherman has been a film noir starlet, a murderous Caravaggio muse, a centerfold, a rodeo clown,... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Monday 2/27 @ August Wilson Theatre

Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical... 

MoMA presents <em>PRINT/OUT</em>

Art: Multimedia

PRINT/OUT

Monday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

From the use of ancient printmaking techniques, which today are sometimes used alongside digital technologies, to the ubiquity of self-published artists’... 

<em>Re:Generation Music Project</em>

Film: Documentary

Re:Generation Music Project

Monday 2/27 @ IndieScreen

Check out some of today's premiere electronic DJs operating outside of their musical comfort zones in this hybrid documentary/Hyundai marketing tool... 

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

Art: Painting & Drawing

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

Monday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

See works from Diego Rivera's first NYC exhibition, which took place at the MoMA back in 1931. Yes, sketches and designs... 

<em>Other Desert Cities</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Other Desert Cities

Monday 2/27 @ Booth Theatre

Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of... 

The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis

Art

The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century... 

<em>A Separation</em>

Film

A Separation

Monday 2/27 @ Film Forum

Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that... 

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012

Film: Shorts

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012

Monday 2/27 @ IFC Center

Face it, the Oscars are more fun to follow when you've actually seen the nominated films, and thanks to ShortsHD and... 

Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures

Art: Video

Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures

Monday 2/27 @ The Jewish Museum

NYC Weights and Measures is filmmaker Jem Cohen's observational portrait of New York City, a document of Cohen's wanderlust as he... 

<em>Michael</em>

Film: Independent

Michael

Monday 2/27 @ Film Forum

Like a Todd Solondz film, Markus Schleinzer's debut feature Michael is a squirm-inducer that makes you feel dirty for having watched... 

<em>John Chamberlain: Choices</em>

Art: Sculpture

John Chamberlain: Choices

Monday 2/27 @ Guggenheim Museum

John Chamberlain is most known for his sculptures made of candy-colored scraps of car parts that he twisted and fitted together... 

<em>Book of Mormon</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Book of Mormon

Monday 2/27 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)

We hestitated to lend our voices to the chorus of adoration for this show — only because we were afraid of being... 

<em>Godspell</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Godspell

Monday 2/27 @ Circle in the Square Theatre

Jesus, what a voice! Hunter Parrish's Jesus charms, amuses, and seduces all. He glorifies Stephen Schwartz's divine score (which is far... 

Kings County Distillery's Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey

Food/Wine: Shopping

Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey

Monday 2/27 @ Greene Grape Wine Store

It all began when the guys behind Kings County Distillery visited the Mast Brothers Chocolate factory. The purveyors of artisanal Brooklyn... 

<em>White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain</em>

Art: Sculpture

White Gold

Monday 2/27 @ The Frick Collection

White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain will feature approximately seventy of Henry Arnhold's promised gift of 131... 

<em>We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Coop</em>

Film: Experimental

We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Coop

Monday 2/27 @ Microscope Gallery

This month-long exhibition and screening series, We Are Cinema, celebrates the "oldest and largest artist-run cooperative in the world," the Filmmakers'... 

<em>The Extraordinary Voyage</em> (2011) with Restored <em>A Trip to the Moon</em> (1902)

Film: Documentary

The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with Restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Monday 2/27 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center

We wax poetic about many films here at Flavorpill, but nothing we've chattered about in the past approaches the newly restored... 

Andre Woolery: <em>Bruised Thumbs</em>

Art: Installation

Andre Woolery

Monday 2/27 @ Frontrunner Gallery

Similar to Kehinde Wiley's work, Andre Woolery's debut show uses portraiture to explore the black experience. Unlike Wiley, this show's portraits... 

ST[love]RY

Fashion/Style: Shopping

ST[love]RY

Monday 2/27 @ STORY

STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,... 

<em>The Fantasticks</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

The Fantasticks

Monday 2/27 @ Jerry Orbach Theater

In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first... 

Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"

Art: Sculpture

Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"

Monday 2/27 @ Public Art Fund

Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed... 

Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Art

Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Although it is well known that Edgar Degas was inspired by Rembrandt, whose etchings he sought out in Rome as a... 

Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence

Art: Multimedia

Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence

Monday 2/27 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian... 

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Art: Photography

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Monday 2/27 @ The Jewish Museum

The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city... 

Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology

Art

Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

For the first time in nearly a century, the Met Museum is displaying a selection from its large collection of electrotypes,... 

The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India

Art

The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India

Monday 2/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art

The first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series, The Body Unbound focuses on representations of the figure and... 

Hand Made: Artisan Week

Conference

Hand Made: Artisan Week

Monday 2/27 @ General Assembly

Join us for a week of classes and events celebrating the marriage of technology and craftsmanship in New York City. We... 

Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video

Art: Multimedia

Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Since the 1980s, a number of contemporary artists working in photography, film, and video have taken as their subject the art... 

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857

Art: Painting & Drawing

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857

Monday 2/27 @ Asia Society and Museum

Delhi has served as a cultural center of North India for more than a millennium in different incarnations. This exhibition focuses... 

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

Art

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. The 15th century was certainly the first great... 

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

Art

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of... 

Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics

Art: Multimedia

Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics

Monday 2/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art

Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common:... 

Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been

Art

Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been

Monday 2/27 @ The Kitchen

Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm   This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural... 

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Art

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Perhaps the greatest figure painter and landscapist of China’s modern period, Fu Baoshi successfully integrated Western and traditional artistic influences to... 

Sarah Sze: Infinite Line

Art: Installation

Sarah Sze: Infinite Line

Monday 2/27 @ Asia Society and Museum

 Sarah Sze: Infinte line is the first exhibition to focus specifically on her process. It is an exploration of line across... 

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Art

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings... 

Voces Y Visiones: Gran Caribe

Art

Voces Y Visiones: Gran Caribe

Monday 2/27 @ El Museo del Barrio

This exhibition features works that explore the vast diversity and complexity of the Caribbean basin, as an accompaniment to El Museo’s... 

A Promise is Cloud

Art

A Promise is Cloud

Monday 2/27 @ Public Art Fund

Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning.... 

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Art

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe,... 

Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet

Art

Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet

Monday 2/27 @ Rubin Museum of Art

In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed... 

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Art

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This third and final phase of the American Wing renovation project comprises 26 renovated and enlarged galleries for the Met Museum’s... 

Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression

Art

Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression

Monday 2/27 @ El Museo del Barrio

Testimonios examines potent works by non-traditionally trained makers. This exhibition celebrates and witnesses mankind’s myriad artistic manifestations by highlighting works that... 

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Art

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Referred to during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) remains to this day America's best-known cabinetmaker. This... 

Storytelling in Japanese Art

Art

Storytelling in Japanese Art

Monday 2/27 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga)...